Book summary

Eight stories about the power of love to heal and comfort, including "Hold Tight," about a teenage girl whose mother is dying of cancer, and two stories ("Night Visions" and "Light into Dark") about a man named Lionel who is tortured by guilt over a quasi-incestuous act.

Media reviews

"[G]ritty, wisecracking, rudely contemporary urban stories....Bloom's precisely observed, rhetorically nervy stories sometimes strain our credulity--but they burrow unerringly into her people's damaged hearts and worried minds with intensity every bit as compassionate as it is clinical."